UNITED STATES v. WATKINS

No. 83-2583.

741 F.2d 692 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cudell WATKINS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 29, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carolyn Garcia, Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Daniel K. Hedges, U.S. Atty., James R. Gough, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEE, POLITZ and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.


POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

Convicted of robbery of postal clerks and postal customers, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2114, 2111 and 7, Cudell Watkins appeals, arguing that he was deprived of a fair trial because an in-court identification was tainted by an impermissibly suggestive showup at the crime scene. Finding the assigned error harmless, we affirm.

Facts

In the early afternoon on March 18, 1983, two postal clerks and two customers in the Weslayan...

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